This project examines and questions everyday constructions of normality from gender to sexuality to alcoholism and what we mean by mental health and neurodiversity. Several of the songs look at the damaging ways we construct masculinty in society, from romantic myths which actual re-enforce coersive control, to the development of incels, which men need to recognise their complicity in. Similarly how the cultivated emotional inarticulacy of a ‘proper man’ can leave them isolated, angry, full of regret and a danger to themselves and others, particulary women. I take a stance that these constructions are damaging to all, including those who are ‘normal’, and that none of this is neutral. These constructions serve a purpose, mollifying us to consume to fill a hollow gap at the heart of our existences, isolating people and creating functional economic ‘units’ who won't question their existances, deliberately breaking the possibility of building a solidarity that would start demanding something else. 

As Fromm said years ago.

'Most people pretend that they are happy, even to themselves, because if you are unhappy, you are considered a failure. So you must wear the mask of being satisfied. But you just have to look at people. You only have to see how behind the mask there is unrest, irritability, anger, depression, insomnia, unhappiness.

Those called mentally ill reveal that certain human things aren’t yet so suppressed, but they come into conflict with the cultural patterns, and create 'symptoms 'through this friction. A great many normal people have adapted so much that they have abandoned everything that is their own. They’ve become so alienated, so much instruments and robotic, that they no longer sense conflict at all. That is, their actual feelings, love, and hate are so much repressed or so much atrophied that they give the image of chronic mild schizophrenia'. (Eric Fromm, 1977)